MAY 27, 2018 OUR GROUP 23 OF MORNING HOTSHOTS

Burn the idea into the consciousness of every man that he can get well regardless of anyone.

The only condition is that he trust in God and clean house.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 98

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VERNON HOWARD

“You have succeeded in life when all you really

WANT is only what you really NEED.”

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The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to

Accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And the Wisdom to know the difference.

We were now at Step Three.

Many of us said to our Maker, as we understood Him:

“God, I offer myself to Thee – to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy Power, Thy Love, and Thy Way of life. May I do Thy will always!”

We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.

Seventh Step Prayer

-The Seventh Step Prayer is from page 76. The Big Book

When ready, we say something like this:

“My Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.”

We have then completed Step Seven.

-(Both derived from page 86 in the Big Book)

St Francis Prayer

-From Chapter 11 of “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions”

“Lord, make me a channel of they peace,

that where there is hatred, I may bring love;

that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness;

that where there is discord, I may bring harmony

that where there is error, I may bring truth;

that where there is doubt, I may bring faith;

that where there is despair, I may bring hope;

that where there are shadows, I may bring light;

that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.

Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted;

to understand, than to be understood;

to love, than to be loved.

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.”

St. Francis Assisi (1182-1228).

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In the Eternal Now, there can be no place

for Divine anger, unforgiveness, or punishment. If we perceive

a need for forgiveness, this is a human condition. Human

forgiveness is the process that frees us to live in the Eternal

Now. It is the essential step before real spiritual growth can

flourish. Science of Mind teaches that the ultimate goal of life is

complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that

this goal is sure to be attained by all.

Ernest Holmes

You guys tell me that if I don’t look at myself really

really good then I’ll never see the good in me.

Anonymous

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,

and you do not know what it will bring back,

a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

ANAÏS NIN

“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”

RUM

ACIM Workbook Lesson 146 Insight
Review: “My mind holds only what I think with God.” and“No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. I loose the world from all I thought it was.”

Today’s lesson is an interesting triad of thoughts that reinforce each other. In my experience it doesn’t seem that I have reached the truth, though I think I seek it every day. But the reason I don’t seem to reach the truth, is that I have conflicting goals. And the goals that are not the truth have priority. That is because I still carry beliefs that there is something in the world that I want more than God’s Love and peace. I still have a mistaken idea of what the world is and has to offer. Thus I still need to loose the world from all I think it is. As I let go of values I have given the images of this world, I clear the way to the recognition that my mind holds only what I think with God. And that is the truth.